The Press: Deadline at Dawn

The deadline for the strike was set for 5:30 a.m. one day last week.
Yet, after three months of negotiating, neither the New York
World-Telegram and Sun, biggest (circ. 600,000) newspaper in the
Scripps-Howard chain, nor the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild had
entirely given up hope of averting it. For much of the night before the
deadline, they had both wrangled over their "final offers." Then they
wearily stopped negotiating.